On the twenty-first-century wet season projections over the Southeastern United States

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 13, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages 153-164

  Selman, Christopher ^a   Misra, Vasu ^a,b   Stefanova, Lydia ^a   Dinapoli, Steven ^a   Smith III, Thomas J ^c  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c US Geological Survey Florida Southeast Ecological Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Global climate model; Precipitation variability; Rainfall variability; Regional climate change; Regional climate model; Southeast United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893801797     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-013-0477-8     Document Type: Article

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